Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville
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Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville was a Frenchman who invented the earliest known sound recording device known as the Phonautograph.[1][2] He was born in Paris in 1817 he’s profession was printing and book selling. He died in 1879.
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